Why sex matters : a darwinian look at human behavior /
"Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2015.
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Edición: | Rev. edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; Vampire Stories and Beyond; Explaining Behavior without Folklore; Kinds of "Why" Questions; Simple Rules, Complex Outcomes; Humans as Critters; 2 Racing the Red Queen: Selfish Genes and Their Strategies; Whose Genes Count, and Why? Kin Selection; Summing Up the Basics: Assumptions and Objections; Novel Evolutionary Environments: Can the Principles Still Hold?; More than Ants or Peacocks: Lifetimes, Culture, Ecology, and Variation; 3 The Ecology of Sex Differences; Sex and Strategies.
- The Ecology of Being Male and FemaleMating Effort; Parental Effort; Variance in Reproductive Success: Mating versus Parental Strategists; 4 Sex, Status, and Reproduction among the Apes; The Ecology of Dominance and Reproductive Success in Primates; Ecological Aspects of Mating Systems; Sex, Resources, and the Ecology of Human Reproduction; The Ecology of Human Mating Systems; The Ecology of Monogamy and Polyandry; 5 Sex, Resources, Appearance, and Mate Choice; Beauty, Resources, and Mate Choice; What Men and Women Want; Influences on Mate Choice in Modern Western Societies.
- Signals of Desirability and Their ManipulationWho Can Choose?; 6 Sex, Resources, and Human Lifetimes; Starting Out: Resource Striving in the Womb; Sex Differences in Development; What's a Mother to Do? Optimizing Maternal Effort among Offspring; Conflicts of Interest: Abortion, Infanticide, Abandonment, Neglect; Sex Differences in Reproductive Lifetimes; Sex Differences in Senescence; 7 Sex and Resource Ecology in Traditional Cultures; Sexual Divisions of Labor; Sex and Control of Resources; Men, Women, and Resources in Traditional and Historical Cultures.
- 8 Sex, Resources, and Fertility in TransitionGermany in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Nineteenth-Century Sweden; Sex, Resources, and Fertility in Transition; Fertility Transitions: What, If Anything, Do They Mean?; 9 Nice Guys Can Win-In Oscial Species, Anyway; Are We Lemmings? A Cautionary Tale; When and Why Do We Cooperate Most Easily?; Simple Strategies for Winning Games; Reciprocity and Its Relatives; Adding a Little Complexity; The "Group Selection" Naming Muddle; Altruists or Good Neighbors?; Cooperation and Free Riders; 10 Conflicts, Culture, and Natural Selection.
- Cooperation, Competition, and GroupsWorking Out Our Conflicts: Moral Systems and Group Life; I'm Committed, Are You? The Deception and Manipulation Problems; Intertwining Cultural and Natural Selection; Logically Inept, Socially Adept: The Social Contexts of Intelligence; 11 Sex and Complex Coalitions; Coalitions, Resources, and Reproduction; Coalitions and the Ecology of Trust; Sex and Human Coalitions; 12 Politics and Reproductive Competition; Men, Women, and Politics Cross-Culturally; Women in Politics: When Did It Pay?; 13 Sex, Resources, and Early Warfare; Resources and Conflict.